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Research Computing: The Enabling Role of Information Technology
November 2, 2012

Key Findings Information technology’s primary research computing role is as an enabler of research. Provision of specialized staff—particularly programmers, analysts, and data-inten…

Women CIOs in Higher Education
October 16, 2012

In the professional field of information technology, women are generally underrepresented , and this gap grows wider at the upper end of the field—CIOs and other senior IT executives. Becaus…

A Dozen Gurus Describe IT Collaborations That Work
May 22, 2012

What factors are most important when evaluating a specific IT collaboration? To answer this question, the authors asked an experienced group of IT leaders to analyze collaborations with w…

EDUCAUSE Research Findings: CIOs, Undergraduates, Mobile Devices, IT Organizations…and More
January 12, 2012 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012

Do you want to know the latest in what higher education IT organizations are doing with mobile-enabled applications, outsourcing, and teaching and learning technologies? How about what's happe…

The Higher Education CIO: Portrait of Today, Landscape of Tomorrow—Slide Presentation
September 28, 2011

This slide presentation illuminates findings from the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) 2011 research on the role of the higher education CIO and the state of the IT workforce. Th…

The Higher Education CIO: Portrait of Today, Landscape of Tomorrow, 2011
October 3, 2011

Key Findings The CIO role in higher education continues to inspire, perplex, and fascinate those who examine it. The 2011 ECAR study of information technology leaders in colleges and universit…

Making the Case for the Information Strategy
September 6, 2011

Whether improving access to learning resources and research collections, developing management information systems to support decision making, or facilitating better communication, the informa…

Technology Leadership: Today’s Higher Education CIO
August 16, 2011

There is little quantitative research on how to succeed as a CIO. Available literature, often based on expert opinion, focuses on highlighting select roles in which a CIO must excel as well as d…

Welcome to the 2011 ECAR Symposium: Changing the Game
July 28, 2011

Presentation at the 2011 ECAR Symposium, July 28, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. Welcome and opening remarks. How to Cite This Work : Grajek, Susan. "Welcome to the 2011 ECAR Symposium:…

Facing Education’s Mounting Challenges with Collaboration and IT
April 12, 2011

This ECAR research bulletin offers higher education executives and their IT leaders reasons and recipes for joining together to decrease the lag time from technological to organizational innovat…



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